Tag: politics
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The Philosophy of Antifa
Great video on anti-fascism. If you’ve ever tutted at antifa violence, if you’ve ever compared fascists with anti-fascists, if you’ve said that you will defend the free speech of fascists or opposed no-platforming of fascists – then you NEED to watch this video by Philosophy Tube – a philosophy masters graduate explaining how things work,…
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Don’t Get Captured
Loving Chris Hopewell’s work (Burn The Witch) and the new video for Run The Jewel’s storming ‘Don’t Get Captured’ brings the politics of gentrification, an uncaring justice system and the military industrial complex to claymation (not a sentence I thought I’d write). This song was a highlight of their Glastonbury set, which pointedly kicked the…
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Strong and unstable
I wish this was pure comedy but it’s not, it’s true…and people keep voting these fuckers in. I guess France is a relief, although I think Jean-Luc Mélenchon was the better candidate along with Poutou. But here we seem to be stuck with May Day, repeating ‘strong and stable’ until it sticks while hiding from…
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Cabbage
Coming over like an amped up Fat White via Dead Kennedies and a few others, I quite like Cabbage’s irreverent take on psych/psychobilly/garage/punk…and their politics are very on point for this fucked up year. And 6Music are playing them a lot in almost permanent rotation, despite the very silly name… I mean they sing about how…
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Ancient Misogyny and Ageism online
I love Mary Beard and her work and do not hide that fact, so I love this interview with her by William Dalrymple. I’ve seen her face up to rude people on Twitter and yes, she does get them to back down usually…a force to be reckoned with! Her comments on the sexual violence of…
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Jeremy Corbyn
I’ve heard a lot of crap about Jeremy Corbyn recently…he’s got an uphill struggle against the Murdoch press machine, as well as the spiteful Blairites who bailed on him (I have one phrase: ‘Bye Felicia!’ for Chuka U-Turn Umunna and Jamie ‘Who?’ Reid) and the mostly ambivalent Guardian (who interestingly is benefitting from gentrification as…